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Candover moves into mail with pounds 349m DX deal

Posted by | Jul 7, 2006 | |

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Candover, the private equity company, yesterday took the fight to the ubiquitous Royal Mail after agreeing to pay pounds 349m for DX Services, the private post group spun out of the former conglomerate Hays 18 months ago.

Royal Mail still has a market share of more than 96 per cent in the UK, despite attempts to open up the market to competition.

Paul Kehoe, the chief executive of DX, said: “There has been 350 years’ worth of inertia in this market and the red post boxes continue to dominate.”

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Internet top source for home-delivery orders

Posted by | Jul 6, 2006 | |

Over half of all home-delivery shoppers say they place orders online, compared to under a quarter two years ago. The findings come from a report by retail authority Verdict Research into the home-delivery business. The #37bn business has been in a state of steady decline despite booming sales through online and TV shopping. While Internet sales have increased 28.9%, they have been unable to counter the losses in the mail order and door-to-door sales sector.

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Scotland set for privatised post trial

Posted by | Jul 6, 2006 | |

Britain’s first fully privatised door-to-door post service to rival the Royal Mail is to be trialled in Scotland.

Glasgow and Edinburgh have been chosen, along with Manchester, for an experiment which will give customers the choice of having collection, sorting and delivery carried out entirely in private hands.

The trial, to be conducted later this year by Royal Mail’s biggest rival, TNT, will see thousands of households visited by two postal workers and could pave the way for greater competition throughout the rest of Britain.

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UK Royal Mail plans GBP10m 'proportional parcel pricing' drive

Posted by | Jul 6, 2006 | |

Royal Mail is launching its biggest marketing campaign to date to explain its new Pricing in Proportion system.

The GBP10m integrated campaign includes a door-drop to every UK address – both business and consumer – and television ads voiced by actor Kevin Whatley. The ads, created by Abbott Mead Vickers. BBDO, will run for six weeks and break next week. Proximity London created the door-drop activity.

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Recommended offer for DX Services plc by Mail Acquisitions Ltd (MAL)

Posted by | Jul 6, 2006 | |

The Boards of DX Services and MAL are pleased to announce the terms of a recommended cash offer by MAL to acquire the whole of the issued and to be issued share capital of DX Services. MAL is an English company, newly incorporated for the purposes of making the Offer, and is ultimately controlled by Candover Partners. The Offer will be 415 pence in cash for each DX Share and values the existing issued share capital of DX Services at GBP348.7 million. Conditional upon the Offer being declared unconditional in all respects, the MAL Group has also agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of Secure Mail Services.

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